Anime Review

Mushishi Volume 6

“Living in the darkness and still being able to remember the light – I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all.”

And so the last four stories of Ginko, the travelling Mushi-master, weave their subtle…

• 4th May 2009
Anime Review

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

At one time or another in their lives, everyone has probably made the fervent wish, ‘If only I could turn the clock back and do things differently…’ Makoto Konno – an ordinary high school girl – finds…

• 1st December 2008
Anime Review

Mushishi Volume 4

Feeling tired, jaded, stressed-out by the noise and pressures of modern life? Then try watching ‘Mushi-shi’. Just a single episode will spirit you away into a very different world. Here, the …

• 4th November 2008
Manga Review

Yotsuba&!: Volumes 1 – 5

Yotsuba&! chronicles the life of Yotsuba Koiwai, a five year old girl that has just moved to a new neighbourhood with her father, who is simply called Mr Koiwai. We follow Yotsuba as she meets…

• 24th August 2008
Anime Review

Mushishi Volume 3

“I have a tendency to attract mushi…the wandering life suits me.” But how did Ginko become a Mushi-master? And is he happy to spend his life constantly on the road? This volume provides some answers…

• 13th April 2008
Anime Review

Mushishi Volume 1

‘They have existed since the dawn of time. Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged …

• 12th November 2007
Anime Review

Noein Volume 2

Why is it in anime that the future is always a bleak place? I’ve always wondered this… Following up on the first volume’s cliffhanger, Haruka finds herself in Karasu’s dimension, La ‘cryma,…

• 23rd July 2007
Anime Review

Noein Volume 1

What would you do if your future self told you that you can’t save the person you love? That’s the dilemma facing schoolboy Yuu in this time travelling, dimension hopping adventure. The doomed …

• 29th March 2007